A comparative histologic study of the fibrillin microfibrillar system in the lens capsule of normal subjects and subjects with Marfan syndrome

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-93

  Mir, Samy ^a   Wheatley, Harold Matthew ^a,b   Maumenee Hussels, Irene E ^a   Whittum Hudson, Judith A ^a   Traboulsi, Elias I ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS CAPSULE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS;

EID: 0031975962     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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